[CentOS-devel] CentOS-7 on PowerPC

[Timo Schöler]

On 06/12/2014 01:27 AM, thus Karanbir Singh spake:

> Hi,

Hi,

> I'd like to try and see if we can get a secondary arch sort of effort
> underway to build and deliver a PowerPC ( power7 ? ) distro based on the
> CentOS-7.
> 
> Power hardware is hard to come by, and we're going to mostly bootstrap
> from the powerpc community resources hosted at OSUOSL - but we do have
> enough resources to get the buildsystem up and keep it running for the
> ppc64 and ppc tree's. To complement this, we also have a power7 machine
> for the time being, on loan from a sponsor. But its future is uncertain,
> we might only have it for another 6 months. The resouces at OSL should,
> however, persist.

at the moment I can provide a Power5+ machine (besides that, an older
IntelliStation 275, which features a Power4+ and thus might be plain too
old), with perspectively another Power6+-based machine, soon.

> Also, as most people on this list will realise - there is quite a lot of
> momentum inside the project, so the existing contributors dont have
> enough time to contribute towards another arch as well, so the effort to
> run this will need to come from the community.
> 
> So the purpose of my email is two fold, (1) is there enough community
> interest to undertake this effort ?

I think so. The Fedora ppc-Port is humming along very nicely.

> and (2) are there enough community
> folks willing to put in the time to make it happen. Ideally some of you
> lot will have local hardware to test and qa the builds as well.

I can provide rack space and the machines I have, including access via
console for selected users. Furthermore, I could provide rack space and
unlimited traffic for any machine of decent size that would be placed
here, if needed.

Last year I started to rebuild RHEL 6 SRPMs on my Power5+ machine,
however, due to lack of spare time, I came to a point where efforts stopped.

> Regards,

Best,

Timo